2016 HOPE Award Winner​Please join us in congratulating her. Dr. Mary Anna Sullivan is the Chief Medical Officer of Lahey Behavioral Health Services. While she served on the Board of Medicine she was struck by both the number of traumatic events happening at MA hospitals and the number of people— patients, families, and caregivers— who were traumatized by the events. She became active in the arm of the board that was more progressive in dealing with these events and mistakes, looking to make the systems better to protect patients AND their caregivers… rather than just mete out punishment which had done nothing to make hospitals safer----and that redirected a lot of her work-life.